About Us
The WiSAR Lab performs R&D in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks. A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of distributed and independent sensors which monitor physical or environmental properties and use wireless communications to report their readings and to receive commands. The monitored properties can include temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, motion, pollutants and medical properties such as heart rate, blood pressure and ECG.
The WiSAR Lab was launched in May 2009 with funding from the Enterprise Ireland Applied Research Programme. It has expertise in a range of Wireless Sensor Technologies and it is researching new wireless and routing protocols to provide more functionality, while consuming less electricity and so increasing battery lifetimes.
The WiSAR Lab has a focus on the emerging Body Area Network standard being developed by IEEE 802.15.6 for medical and non-medical sensing applications in the vicinity of the human body or on the human body.
As part of its research programme, the WiSAR Lab is active in the following national and international groups :
The WiSAR Lab also supports the Embedded Systems Degree in LYIT and performs joint projects with its students. The WiSAR Lab also partners with other third level institutes and is continually seeking to develop new collaborations, both externally and internally.
Pictured above at the 2010 IT&T Confernce hosted by WiSAR Lab are David Tracey of the WiSAR Lab and the Tanaiste Mary Coghlan showing off a WiSAR Lab development Mote.
